Apr 27, 2022The Fight at NightLighting up the Battlefield — ATN-Ukraine, which is helping defenders of Ukraine to see at night and shoot straight, did a lot more than paint Easter eggs for the Orthodox holiday this year. The U.S.-Ukraine …3 min read3 min read
Apr 14, 2022The Putin CrucibleThree scenarios ending Russia’s special operation in Ukraine — The starting point for writing any script is its orientation in historical space and time. It is difficult to build a curve, and even more so to understand where it will lead, if historical coordinate axes are not laid for the situation. …9 min read9 min read
Nov 14, 2021Bring Back Our Blimp#SaveKyivPost We all remember the twenty-second and the final episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. Simpsons jokes have of course usually been sharp and carefully crafted, and never too easy, but I don’t recall anything as perfect as the Duff blimp crashing on…2 min read2 min read
Mar 10, 2020Prominvestbank:A broken suitcase On March 4, 2020, Ukraine’s Justice Ministry sold 99.8% of Prominvestbank (PIB) shares on the Ukraine’s PFTS Stock Exchange to Russia’s VEB, bypassing the decision of Stockholm arbitration and the standards of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). The Regulator threatened to declare the bank insolvent and the bank’s borrowers…Nbu4 min readNbu4 min read
Jan 24, 2020no one believes himpompeo not welcome in kyiv — once senators have exhausted all of their time for questions in the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump, they will take up whether the senate should subpoena witnesses and seek additional documents from the administration that could be relevant to the impeachment inquiry. depending on what has occurred up…Pompeo1 min readPompeo1 min read
Jan 23, 2020operation yeconomic sabotage or financial illiteracy? — kyiv. ukrainians have known for years that foreign experts pick up on much less in conversation than native speakers. however, few expected that the time would come when the standard of competency turned out to be the ability to agree balance of payments (платёжный баланс) should not be confused with…Nbu5 min readNbu5 min read
Nov 21, 2019how we got heredrumpy’s demise kyiv. the trump administration’s preoccupation with ukraine traces back to the doxing of paul manafort’s daughter by a obscure darknet hactivist group named cyberguerilla. the dump contained almost 300,000 text messages linking manafort to millions of dollars in secret, illegal offshore payments for his work in ukraine. …Pompeo3 min readPompeo3 min read
Oct 29, 2019family contract for 5 billionhow ukraine’s agrarian fund became the target of ‘grey cardinals’ from the yanukovych era under the pretext of fighting against corruption, ukraine’s economy minister tymofiy mylovanov last week removed the head of the most efficient state trader pjsc agrarian fund andriy radchenko. …Ukraine10 min readUkraine10 min read
Oct 24, 2019foggy bottom risespolo bunnies versus cookie pushers u.s. deputy secretary of state for european and eurasian affairs george kent on october 15, 2019 told congressmen that he was wrongly instructed on may 23, 2019 to lie low on ukraine and let three amigos supervise u.s.-ukraine relations. kent said was so miffed he…Politics2 min readPolitics2 min read
Oct 19, 2019it’s a mad mad world (cont’d)rudy’s defense: soros did it [in] november of 2016, [the ukrainians] first came to me, and they said, ‘we have shocking evidence that the collusion that they claim happened in russia, which didn’t happen, happened in ukraine, and it happened with hillary clinton…Politics2 min readPolitics2 min read
